Some states now outlaw discrimination based upon gender identity and expression- and/or have interpreted laws to say nondiscrimination applies to health insurance based upon cases or Obamacare regs or EEOC decisions.
Orange idiot has been revoking regs that support outlawing discrimination.
Many places don’t- case in point - Medicare in many places.
im thinking we need to split california, oregon, and washington into six or seven gerrymandered blue states, give puerto rico, guam, and all native nations their own seats too.
pass some civil rights bills and say goodbye to the senate republicans
This … can’t be right.
So you’re asking us to Google it for you?
All I could find were recommendations by her (more recent pieces on her too), not favorites. But the implication of them is that yeah, that’s just silly.
I think this is the article where the quote on Abrams’ book tastes came from:
The Enders Game doesn’t bother me, you can enjoy OSC’s writing without agreeing with his message. I don’t know if the same can be said for Ayn Rand. Maybe we should chalk it up to “youthful indiscretion” (pace Henry Hyde).
It would be worth it to pose the question to Abrams, “What value did you see in Atlas Shrugged to choose is as a favorite book, and has your position changed since a Trump presidency ?”
“long speeches” ( just kidding )
i really liked fountainhead, and it’s still in my top list. roark’s a hero, and it’s about freaking architecture not war or mortal combat
it’s also not a book i recommend, because ( obviously ) it’s pretty convincing politically for some. she sets up an excellent strawman argument and draws the reader into its false logic amazingly well
it’s good to have “antidote” books to read after it. even though, years and years on, her writing style doesn’t hold up as well as it did when i was a teenager
I don’t see much grappling going on.
fair enough.
i don’t recommend the book for its philosophy but i probably shouldn’t recommend it for that reason as well
While I’m certain the Dem establishment once again did everything they could to rig things in favour of their anointed Third Way heir apparent and against the scary ol’ socialist, the author’s conclusion doesn’t parse:
It’s time to put an end to this sham, because we can’t accede to this level of duplicity without ourselves becoming complicit in the madness. Drumpf essentially terminated the neoliberal Republican party in one election cycle, but because the Democratic party establishment is more entrenched and dangerous, the prime carrier of the neoliberal virus to which the Republicans are just accessories, it is the more difficult enemy to beat
That’s factually wrong on a number of levels, and discounts the dangers posed by helping Il Douche get a second term.
Hope you’re feeling better now.
Brave yourselves for another epic hissy fit from Donnie
i’m not a fan of the china fear mongering. ( though it fits biden to a t. sigh thanks democrats. )
so far as i know, there’s not a lot more china could have done to contain the virus. and the virus in the us – so far as i understand – is thought to mainly to have come from europe.
fwiw: i also believe travel bans aren’t thought to do much good. better is screening and monitoring. even if you can’t do outright testing, stopping passengers who are ill and who have fevers works better.
WHO continues to advise against the application of travel or trade restrictions to countries experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks.
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beaten to it by @Wanderfound’s found tweets:
It’s intended to show that racists can trust Joe not to be as incompetent as Trump but still racist. Which is on brand for Biden.
